Colin Hyde

Late, late call for this month’s working party… On Saturday 27th September we will be doing some maintenance work at our Townsend/Pretwood site. Meet-up times of 9:45am at the Meeting House or 10:00am in Townsend farmyard. Normal outdoor working clothes: gloves and boots etc, and bring shears/secateurs.  Suitable for children and dogs. Please reply to

Good afternoon all you tree planters! Everything is in place for Saturday’s planting at Townsend Farm, which is part of the Dillington Estate. I will meet with volunteers at 10:00am at the Market House outside the Co-op. (Some people will be making their way straight to the site.) You will need good outdoor working clothes,

Calling all Tree Group planters – I’m very pleased to be able to announce an important planting for Saturday week. We will be planting 195 mixed deciduous trees and shrubs on Townsend Farm, near Pretwood. We have worked out all the details with Dillington’s Estate Manager, Ollie Blackburn, and we both feel that this is

Hi there, Hope you all had great Christmas fun over the past 2 or 3 days whatever your chosen way of celebrating might have been… I thought I’d just check in with you quickly to see how many people might be planning on coming for a walk tomorrow? If you could let me know one

We will be meeting as usual this Saturday at 11:00am – rendez-vous also as usual the Market House. We will continue our walking around Ilminster to take in trees we have surveyed and maybe add some new ones. Our aim is to have enough information to create a Tree Walk around Ilminster from which we

Ben Thorne, a Senior Farm adviser from the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) will be talking to us  about what can be done to help reduce the frequency and severity of local flooding events. Details of this event to be held at the Ilminster Arts Centre are shown in the poster. Doors open 6:45.

Hi there, We’re going out on Saturday week to review all of the trees that we have added to the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory. Over the past  6 months, we have located about 25 very special trees within walking distance of the town centre that we want to celebrate. These will form the basis